Pamela Gwinnett gets an extra two months in prison for £300,000 fraud on elderly widow
Fugitive fraudster Pamela Gwinnett has been sentenced to six years and two months in jail for stealing more than £300,000 from an elderly widow.
Fugitive fraudster Pamela Gwinnett, who stole more than £300,000 from an elderly widow, was today jailed for a total of six years and two months at Preston Crown Court.
The heartless sixty three-year-old con woman had been jailed in her absence following a trial last year.
She had been convicted of fraud and theft from Chorley widow Joan Green.
Gwinnett, of Greenfield Road, Adlington, fled the country for Tenerife prior to her trial before being arrested and extradited last week.
Judge Michael Maher today imposed a further two months prison sentence on her for breaching her bail conditions.
He said Gwinnett had treated the court and her victim's family with "contempt".
Gwinnett, wearing a leopard skin jacket and black trousers, showed no emotion as she was sentenced.
She opened a bank account in their joint names and siphoned off tens of thousands of pounds.
Judge Maher said it was estimated that she "plundered" Mrs Green's estate for more than £300,000.
Gwinnett led to Tenerife while on bail as she awaited trial following an investigation into her dealings with 89-year-old Joan, from Chorley.
Last October, she was convicted and sentenced in her absence to six years in jail for theft and fraud by abuse of position.
On Friday, she was detained on her arrival at Manchester Airport in footage captured on police bodycams.
During a hearing at Preston Crown Court last year, Judge Michael Maher sentenced her as if she was present in the courtroom.
He said: “To you, Joan Green was simply a cash cow to be milked until she was dry. And so having inveigled your way into their lives behind the charade that you were a benevolent friend to Joan, you set about playing the long game to isolate and control a vulnerable woman and thereby enrich yourself.
“There was in my judgment a self-assured shamelessness to your fraudulent activity – to use the colloquialism, you have some brass neck Ms Gwinnett.”
Investigating officer Georgia Loughton, of Greater Manchester Police, said: “This result is the culmination of a tenacious investigation ensuring that we secured justice for the family of the victim at the centre of this case.
“Work to convict Gwinnett and her evading justice has been ongoing for quite some time. We were relentless in our commitment to bring her back to the UK, where she will now serve her term in prison. I would like to thank the National Crime Agency and Spanish police for their work with us on this case.”
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Gwinnett plundered the life savings of the retired accountant when she became her carer as she controlled her finances and isolated her from her family.
Mrs Green died shortly before her 90th birthday in November 2022, with Gwinnett, of Greenfield Road, Adlington, continuing to steal from her this way even after her death.
Earlier this year, a TV crew from Sky News confronted Gwinnett outside her picturesque seaside apartment on the island.
She denied stealing from the pensioner, who died in November 2022, and told the channel: “I don’t need to answer these questions. Did I heck take the money.”
Gwinnett flew to Tenerife in April 2025 just hours after a court application to vary her bail conditions to allow her to purportedly scatter her brother’s ashes on the island was refused.
As part of her scam, Gwinnett made a series of false claims against Mrs Green’s stepdaughter and step-grandchild – including theft and neglect – before she gained power of attorney. Gwinnett used Mrs Green’s cash to fund an extravagant lifestyle as she bought a car worth £22,500 and enjoyed expensive beauty and Botox treatments.